Dem Senators are peeling off of President Obama’s government takeover of health care and its liberal fantasy land that spends more than a trillion and contains hundreds of billions in new taxes. As James Carville told CNN, President Obama only has 57 votes. Reuters James Pethokoukis is reporting that Senators Liberman, Landrieu and Nelson are at NO, and Bayh maybe too. Pethokoukis is reporting the | Read More »

Today, in editorializing about Scozzafava’s collapse, the normally astute editors of The Wall Street Journal join the ranks of those chronically infatuated with equating the supposed extremism of the right with that of the left. This apples-to-oranges nonsense is made only worse by the editors’ absurd acceptance of the “litmus test” argument about supposed conservative rejection of those who don’t “agree with them on every | Read More »

Dede Scozzafava is the woman some Republicans call a “new style of Republican” who is going to help usher in a new Republican revolution.Not likely. Even the Wall Street Journal has caught on.Republicans are telling themselves that a political wave is building that could carry them to big election gains next year. Judging by their performance so far in a special election in New York, | Read More »

While Senator Snowe’s yes vote in the Senate Finance Committee was a shock to liberals and conservatives, it is neither a defeat for conservatives nor a victory for liberals. The bill would have passed Committee regardless of how Sen. Snowe voted. Senator Snowe, in her own words, said her vote was a maybe on the Senate floor. Smart political observers like Carrie Budoff Brown at | Read More »

The MSM would like the American public to believe that the Senate Finance Committee bill was scored by the Congressional Budget Office. After all, WaPo, the NYT and the WSJ reported: WaPo: “The bill would cost $829 billion over the next decade.” NYT: “The budget office analyzed the bill … its newly projected cost — $829 billion over 10 years.” WSJ: “The latest Senate health | Read More »

Republicans have been living by the Congressional Budget Office’s numbers and some say the GOP now must die by those numbers.Not so fast. Above the fold on page one of the Wall Street Journal today is this article that “New Math Boosts Health Plan.” What new math?The CBO has released numbers on the Senate’s health care plan — never mind that the legislation remains mostly | Read More »

Former governor and VP candidate Sarah Palin wrote a pretty good op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on the health care situation – one where she points out, repeatedly, that we’re being asked to blindly fund a government program that will affect every aspect of our life and will not save us money in either the short or long term. As Ace of Spades notes, | Read More »

Simple, clear, plain english is good when it comes to health care. It is hard to do unless you are really good. It is even more difficult to make talking about health care interesting and witty. The winner is George Newman writing in the Wall Street Journal in an article titled: “Parsing the Health Reform Arguments.” If you are going to read any one thing | Read More »

(Via Hot Air Headlines) There’s a part of me that enjoys articles like this one by Thomas Frank even more than I would by somebody who didn’t hate either conservatives, or the Republican Party. You see, despite Frank’s arrogant sneering at conservatives, willful refusal to see the Democrats’ own role in our current financial mess, petulant dismissal of the burgeoning right-populist movement, hasty downplaying of | Read More »

Via @Yousefzadeh comes this tragic, tragic tale: From Ordering Steak and Lobster, to Serving It Carlos Araya used to order lobster, filet mignon and $200 bottles of red wine at the Palm Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Now, he seats customers at its Tribeca branch. Mr. Araya, 38 years old, lost his job in 2007 as a crude oil trader on the New York Mercantile Exchange. | Read More »

Good Friday means the markets are closed and thus it is a slow news day. But, as I cracked open my Wall Street Journal, I came across an interesting op-ed piece written by Michael Pereira on solutions for making the bank rescue plan a success. In his piece, Mr. Pereira outlines some of the key concerns that investors have in regards to the Public-Private Investment Programme, and although he | Read More »

Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, argues in Salon today that President Obama’s brand of economics is “revolutionary.” Only an Ivy League educated lefty economist (i.e. – Keith Olbermann graduate of Cownell could not pull this one off) could have the intellectual gall to argue that the Obama budget is both “conservative” in the details, yet “revolutionary” in scope. The left is gearing up | Read More »

Although I have not supported Barack Obama, I’ve been committed to actually contributing to the process, instead of being bitter, because what’s done is done. As such, I’m really trying to get behind what President-elect Obama is doing. I’ve supported some of his economic appointments and I think he’s truly making an effort. Also, I think there’s so much potential for this incoming Administration. However, after | Read More »

The Wall Street Journal reports that once again the United States is second only to Japan for the highest corporate tax rate at 39.9% average (federal and state combined). This is 50% higher than the average of our international competitors combined and only strengthens the argument that American companies are becoming less competitive globally because of our domestic policies. Our corporations remain strong enough for | Read More »